Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welcome so please share widely (this poster has the correct start time of 5.30pm!) The text and audiobook are available on Internet Archive/Gutenberg.
Our next speaker in the Science and Imagination panel at #VPFAExtremes is Bridget Morgan, with her paper 'The Rejuvenated Spinster: An Alternative Narrative of Ageing in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future (1918)'
Now we have @BettyHagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes
On one of our final panels at #VPFAExtremes today – Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures – Silvia Storti is getting us started with '"Proof of Thought and Depth of Feeling": Gender, Power and Empire in Anne Thackeray’s Fairy Tales'
1 week today the @BAVS_UK@BAVS_PGs ECR committee will be kicking off the BAVS Conference by hosting the ECR Professionalisation Day! We have talks from experts on #C19 pedagogy, careers, peer review workshops, immersive Victorian games & even a séance magic show w @CareenaFenton
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
"Ouida" has been selected as the runner-up to the VPFA Second Book Prize 2025! Thank you very much to the lovely scholars who supported this book and for these wonderful, generous reviews! ✨
Starting the day at #VPFAExtremes with the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel, and Joanne Knowles’ (@JoanneKnowlesUK) paper on ‘Improvers, Destroyers and Extremes at the Victorian Seaside’
Starting the Intertextuality and Adaptation panel, we've got Julia Kuehn joining us online to talk about Marie Carelli's novel The Sorrows of Satan and its stage adaptations #VPFAExtremes
Next we have @lucyella13 discussing the decadent transformations of protagonists in Netta Syrett’s novels as they come to epitomise the transgressive extremes of the 'New Movement' #VPFAExtremes
And finishing off this panel is @EmilieSLaurent with her exploration of the monstrous extremes of gender in the figure of the castrato in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ #VPFAExtremes
Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes
Really looking forward to this! We've got a great line up of speakers and are thrilled to be partnering with @hbap1924 to raise the profile of #seasideheritage. Do come and join us for the day 🌊🏖️
We're excited to announce that on 6 June we'll be co-hosting our first day symposium with @hbap1924 on Recognising Seaside Heritage. We've got speakers from around the coast and across the heritage sector discussing the challenges and sharing experience hbap.org.uk/recognising-seas…
Thank you Warrington Museum, for sending us your mural featuring Sarah Grand (in the middle)! If anyone wants to see our SG collection, feel free to drop us a line.